finno-ugric in English

noun

1

the Finno-Ugric group of languages.

Those who spoke Swedish used a form known as Finland-Swedish; those who spoke Finnish used a non-Indo-European language, part of a small language group known as Finno-Ugric .

adjective

1

of or relating to the major group of Uralic languages, whose main branches are Finnic and Ugric.

But, whereas Estonian belongs to the Finno-Ugric group, Latvian and Lithuanian are rarities, sole survivors of an ancient group, closely related to Sanskrit within the Indo-European family of languages.

Use "finno-ugric" in a sentence

1. Adessive definition: a grammatical case in Finno-Ugric languages indicating place Meaning, pronunciation, translations and examples

2. The current article is a brief review of the Finno-Ugric substrate Appellatives in the Russian dialects of the Upper Kama

3. On rare clearings in this swampy hell a few Finno-Ugric tribes eventually appeared and left many burial mounts behind, with some of them still belowground because of impassibility of the swamp.

4. Paul Ariste (February 3, 1905, Torma, Jõgevamaa – February 2, 1990, Tartu) was an Estonian linguist renowned for his studies of the Finno-Ugric languages (especially Estonian and Votic), Yiddish[1] and Baltic Romani language

5. Spanish-speaking expressive narrative communicational Flemish-speaking verbal Bantu-speaking gesticulating anecdotical Italian-speaking English-speaking openhearted Japanese-speaking anecdotic outspoken talebearing German-speaking Blabbermouthed gestural Finno-Ugric-speaking newsy Turkic-speaking voluble Icelandic-speaking nonverbal Kannada

6. ‘Its roots are in the Ural-Altaic languages of Finland, Hungary, and Turkey.’ ‘Hungarian is classified as a Finno-Ugric language and is part of the larger Ural-Altaic linguistic family.’ ‘It is, thus, demonstrated that the ancient Korean ethnic group once belonged to the Paleo-Siberian group that originated from the Ural-Altaic